On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Alex Kac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right - but that doesn't work for my situation. I need actual free available > physical RAM. Like when you use top and it shows you: > PhysMem: 1173M wired, 5340M active, 2658M inactive, 9175M used, 1065M free.
This "free" value is essentially useless. Mac OS X will use all available RAM for things like hard disk caches. While it's true that if you have 1GB "free" that you have a bunch of physical RAM sitting around not being useful, the converse is not true. It's quite common to have a system with a lot of conceptually free resources showing only 15MB of "free" RAM, because much of the rest has been dedicated to caching files and other such things. If you base a decision on that number, you'll hit the "low resources" path in a lot of cases where it is unwarranted. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
